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Farshid Moussavi wins approval to build home for parents in Hove

Farshid Moussavi has won the go-ahead, at the second attempt, for a new five-bedroom home for her parents in Hove

The architect’s previous proposal for the site in the Tongdean Conservation Area was rejected by Brighton and Hove Council on the grounds it was ‘unduly dominant and incongruous within the streetscene’ and for its ‘inappropriate roof form, design and detailing’.

The authority’s planning officers were equally unimpressed by Moussavi’s revised designs, which included a reworked shallow hipped roof instead of the two mono-pitched roofs in a staggered arrangement originally proposed.

Despite a recommendation to refuse, the planning committee waved through the scheme, which received three objections and 42 letters of support.

The 694m² scheme will be built from white brick and zinc for the roof.

Moussavi, founding director of Farshid Moussavi Architecture, is curating the architecture room at this year’s Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition.

Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas has criticised Italy’s national institute of architects for failing to recognise his wife and business partner Doriana after it awarded a lifetime achievement award solely to him

Readers' comments (4)

This is most excellent to see - well done to Farshid. The response of Brighton & Hove Planning Dept is typical of them - negative and uninterested in anything which pushes the boundaries from the conservative norm.

For such a progressive City on so many other fronts, Brighton & Hove Planning need a real shake up.

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